At issue in the new case was a temporary moratorium on development along the shores of Lake Tahoe, which straddles the California-Nevada border, imposed by the regional planning agency charged with protecting the lake's environmental health.
This would help spare India's blushes at a settlement it fought to thwart, and let China say it had not accepted a border imposed by British imperialists.India, a raucous democracy, would have more trouble selling such a trade-off at home.
During the Nato bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, nearly 500,000 ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo spilled over the border, imposing a huge burden on Albania's already fragile economy.
The effort to send the police into critical areas of the city and focus more officers on gang enforcement sounds reasonable — the aim is to abandon the artificial borders imposed by the boundaries of the city's 25 police districts.
Camus published the novel in 1947 and his town's sealed city gates embody the borders imposed by the Nazi occupation, while the ethical choices of its inhabitants build a dramatic representation of the different positions taken by the French.
For two decades, the West, in the institutional forms of NATO and the European Union, had been advancing on Russia, whose borders, post-1991, closely resembled the western borders imposed on it by the Central Powers through the 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
The fallout from the Arab revolutions that began in 2011 has prompted speculation on the precariousness of the borders imposed by the 1916 Sykes-Picot agreement (when Britain and France divided up the Ottoman Empire), and for no one is that more true than the Kurds.
Notice that in his most recent audiotape he spoke of "our sons in Iraq"; meaning not Saddam and his Tikriti henchmen, whose secular Baathist regime has long been on his hit-list, but the faithful millions who live inside the artificial borders imposed on Mesopotamia by the western powers when they summoned Iraq into being.
The fractious nature of Kurdish politics means the Kurds are divided as much by squabbling among acronyms of their own devising as they are by arbitrary borders imposed from outside.
I grew up hearing my parents and their generation, blame the woes and wars of the Middle East on the arbitrary borders imposed by the colonial powers on the region after World War One.
The lateral excitatory and inhibitory connection fields are not restricted by the barrel borders imposed on the afferent projection from L4, but are instead centered on the location of each cortical neuron (as suggested by evidence from [10], [30] [33]; see example in Fig. 2c).
